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by FjgdymdjttdjG 1664 days ago
I interviewed someone from China once who wrote code almost as I write prose.

FirstWeCreateAVariableCalledX.AssignItValueY().PassYtoPvalue();

Now imagine 10,000 lines of code written like this and done so in a way that was thoroughly impressive. The creativity alone was startling. I would do it a disservice to further explain.

Yes, her object names were ridiculously long, but it was the most readable code ever. It was like she combined the code and documentation together. I'd seen this neither before nor since, and it was strange and beautiful.